Award Circumstances and Date

Prisoner of War Information

Discharge

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date

4 October 1918

Age

Place of Death

Cause

Influenza

Notices

Memorial or Cemetery

Memorial Reference

New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Frederick Pelvin was born on 14 August 1891 at Timaru, the only child of James Richard and Mary (née O'Gorman) Pelvin. His mother died on 6 August 1892, when little James was not yet a year old. His father lived on till 1936 and is buried with his son James Frederick and an infant grandson.

Married wirth two small children and working as a motor mechanic, James completed his attestation on 16 May 1918. However James did not pass his medical so he did not serve overseas. Instead he was placed in the 2nd NZEF Reserve.